CHAPTER XXI SEBASTIAN DEL PIOMBO 198 CHAPTER XXII BONIFAZIO AND PARIS BORDONE 203 CHAPTER XXIII PAINTERS OF THE VENETIAN PROVINCES 212 CHAPTER XXIV PAOLO VERONESE 228 CHAPTER XXV TINTORETTO 243 CHAPTER XXVI TINTORETTO (_continued_) 254 CHAPTER XXVII BASSANO 269 PART III CHAPTER XXVIII THE INTERIM 281 CHAPTER XXIX TIEPOLO 297 CHAPTER XXX PIETRO LONGHI 309 CHAPTER XXXI CANALE 314 CHAPTER XXXII FRANCESCO GUARDI 321 BIBLIOGRAPHY 329 INDEX 333 ILLUSTRATIONS BY AT 1. Madonna with S. Liberale Giorgione Castelfranco and S. Francis _Frontispiece_ 2. Adoration of the Antonio da Murano Berlin Magi 31 3. Agony in Garden Jacopo Bellini British Museum 41 4. Procession of the Gentile Bellini Venice Holy Cross 52 5. Altarpiece of 1480 Alvise Vivarini Venice 60 6. Arrival of the Carpaccio Venice Ambassadors 75 7. Pietà Giovanni Bellini Brera 87 8. An Allegory Giovanni Bellini Uffizi 94 9. Fête Champêtre Giorgione Louvre 136 10. Portrait of Ariosto Titian National Gallery 156 11. Diana and Actaeon Titian Earl Brownlow 161 12. Holy Family Palma Vecchio Colonna Gallery, Rome 185 13. Portrait of Laura di Lorenzo Lotto Brera Pola 194 14. Marriage in Cana Paolo Veronese Louvre 234 15. S. Mary of Egypt Tintoretto Scuola di San Rocco 258 16. Bacchus and Ariadne Tintoretto Ducal Palace 261 17. Baptism of S. Lucilla Jacopo da Ponte Bassano 274 18. Antony and Cleopatra Tiepolo Palazzo Labia, Venice 304 19. Visit to the Pietro Longhi National Gallery Fortune-Teller 310 20. S. Maria della Salute Francesco Guardi National Gallery 324 LIST OF PAINTERS